Tue 1/20 Make-up: Get a Finding Stuff Out sheet and a question from the file.
Finding Stuff Out: Select a question that students have wondered about, use the internet to find an explanation, and then draw a diagram and describe it in your own words
Mon 1/19 -- No School, MLK Day
Fri 1/16
Make-up: Schedule a time with Leslie to take Test #2
Quarter 2 Test #2 on Heat and Temperature
Wed 1/14 Make-up: Write your own question that could be on the test and answer it
Write a review question for the test
Start creating note sheet for test
Mythbusters: Frozen head & Blue ice CP Homework: (due Fri 1/16) make a note sheet for the test, 1 page, both sides, your own handwriting
Tue 1/13
Make-up work: - Card sort: Conductors and Convection - Flashlight on thermometer experiment - Winter, summer and the tilt of the earth demonstration
Mon 1/12 Make-up work: Conduction/Convection reading and questions in file White boards on examples of conduction and convection Heat can transfer different ways: Conduction is touching / contact Convection is when hot gases or liquids rise and cool ones sink (Finger next to candle demo) CP Homework: (due Tue 1/13) create a true/false question about heat and temperature and write an answer with explanation.
Thu 1/8 Make-up work: List 3 RHR behavior expectations for Leslie's classroom. List 3 examples of actions that are NOT RHR for Leslie's class. Eureka 20: Measuring Temperature Thermometer game Reviewing Leslie's RHR expectations CP Homework: What is the difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius? Which do you prefer? Why? (due 1/9)
Mon 12/22, Tue 12/23, Mon 1/5 & Tue 1/6 Make-up work: Get roller coaster project packet from Leslie and complete. You will need a computer that runs JAVA (a smartphone probably won't work). Explore PhET Energy Skate Park simulator Design and build a roller coaster Draw and label the energy along your ride both without and with friction
Fri 12/19 Make-up: Use page from file to answer worksheet on Temperature scales Temperature scales are arbitrary! Kelvin is the only one where zero means "nothing" Hands in water demo -- we are lousy thermometers!
Thu 12/18 Make-up: Watch Eureka 19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMg1bmF5BVo and answer the following questions. 1) What will happen to a full balloon left in the sun? 2) Why would this happen? 3) Why is there space left between pieces of concrete on a bridge? Temperature and Heat prior knowledge sheet Ball and ring demonstration Simulator of gas molecules Temperature measures average kinetic energy CP Homework: What is one place besides the metal ball and the balloon of something expanding when hot or shrinking when cooled? (due 12/19)
Wed 12/17 Make-up work: #1-4b of Momentum and Impulse review (in file) Brainstormed safety devices that increase time to stop and so decrease force Whiteboard - what are the questions asking for and what do they want? Which equation? Practice on worksheet CP Homework: Write and solve a word problem about IMPULSE. (due 12/18)
Mon 12/15 Make-up work: Answer the following questions (also in file) in terms of impulse and momentum. 1) When swinging a baseball bat, why does follow through lead to the baseball leaving the bat with greater velocity? 2) Is a dish less likely to break if it falls onto a tile floor or a carpeted floor? 3) Why are airbags in cars a good idea? Catching a baseball barehanded and water balloon catching contests Impulse is change in momentum Watched ESPN "Relaxing with Impulse" CP Homework: Write 2 sentences using the word "impulse" 1) using everyday, common meaning & 2) using the physics meaning. (due 12/16)
Fri 12/12 Make-up: Schedule time with Leslie to do lab activity Outrageous Acts of Science: Whip cutting daisy Marble Madness: Different marbles down ruler ramps into other marbles on rulers Does it seem like momentum is conserved?
Thu 12/11 Make-up: Schedule a time with Leslie to take the test
Q2 Test #1 on Work, Power, and Energy
Wed 12/10 Make-up: Use the file below to make a sheet of notes for the test (answers are on slides after all the questions)
Jeopardy Review - Work, Power, Energy CP homework: Make a notesheet to use on the test (due 12/11)
Tue 12/9 Make-up work: Do momentum practice problems 1-4b Where do we hear momentum in daily life? Sports, being on a roll,... Whiteboard practice using momentum equation Worksheet practice mom. = m*v CP homework:Worksheet #5 (due 12/12)
Mon 12/8 Make-up work: Get CD 8-1 worksheet from file and complete all but #4 Stop a cannon ball with your foot? Momentum is inertia in motion Newton's cradle demos Tennis ball on basketball demo Conservation means total momentum stays that same Practice worksheet
Fri 12/5 Make-up: Use the internet to do the following: 1) Define trebuchet. 2) Define catapult. What kind of potential energy is used for each? Junkyard Wars - Washer Toss Changing energy to throw a washing machine
Thu 12/4 Make-up work: Get CD 9-1 from file and complete 1-5 & 7 Reviewing Work, Power, and Energy (CPPs) Eureka 9: Kinetic Energy Worksheet that reviewed all from this quarter CP homework: Create and solve a word problem using P=W/t (due 12/5)
Wed 12/3 Make-up work: #1 use the packet in the file (or the internet) to find the calories in one of your favorite fast foods. #2 Convert the calories to Joules (1 Calorie = 4184 Joules). #3 use the packet in the file (or the internet) to find how long it would take you to burn off those calories at an exercise of your choice. - Find the power needed for a couple of fitness activities - Discuss how work, energy, and power are related to calories and food
Tue 12/2 Make-up work:Use the internet or notes to answer these questions: 1) If I roll a ball across a flat floor, it eventually stops. Where does the energy go? 2) Once I pick my feet up off the ground on a swing, I can get myself higher and higher. Where does the energy of motion come from? 3) Where do cows get their energy? Watched Sports Figures: Tony Hawk perpetual motion? Everything is solar powered??? CP Homework: Connect energy sources to the sun (slip in file) due (12/3)
Mon 12/1 Make-up work: Get fake data and complete lab sheet (in file) Defining POWER -- everyday life and in physics Power = work / time and is measured in Watts Determining our power running up the stairs.
Wed 11/26 - Fri 11/28
THANKSGIVING BREAK - no school, enjoy your holiday!
Tue 11/25 Make-up work: Get toy popper data and complete lab worksheet (in file) Watched Eureka 10: Potential Energy Measured height of toy popper and conservation of energy to calculate how fast it was going when it left the ground
Mon 11/24 Make-up work: Complete worksheet CD 9-2 front except for challenge problem (in file) (Cups, rubberband and string activity) Conservation means total energy stays the same Applied conservation to examples where gravitational potential energy (GPE) turned into kinetic energy (KE) GPE depends directly on height
Fri 11/21 Make-up work: Get packet and complete graphic organizer (in file) Energy is the ability to do work! (Both measured in Joules) Identified 3 kinds of Potential energy and 2 kinds of Kinetic Energy Tried 6 demos around the room of how energy changed from one form to another CP homework: Identify an example of energy conversion in everyday life -- from initial to next (due 11/25)
Thu 11/20 Make-up work: Get class data (in file) and then write a summary Try pulling a dishwasher (500 g mass) into a truck using ramp at different angles What did we find? No free lunches -- all about the same amount of work!
Mon 11/17 - Wed 11/19 (Leslie working but sick) Make-up: See Leslie for instruction sheet, examples and supplies to be completed on your own time
Paper roller coaster project
Make a roller coaster for a marble out of only paper and tape.
Fri 11/14
- Leslie out sick Make-up: Google "mythbuster results" and summarize how they tested any 3 myths (http://mythbustersresults.com/) Mythbusters
Thu 11/13 - Leslie out sick Make-up: Google "mythbuster results" and summarize how they tested any 3 myths (http://mythbustersresults.com/) Mythbusters
Wed 11/12 Make-up work: Complete "work"sheet #1-5 (in file) Review examples of work Catchy Physics Phrases: force and work Eureka 8: work Practice using the formula W=F*d CP homework: Create your own problem using W=F*d and solve it (due 11/13)
Tue 11/11 Make-up work: Use the internet or notes to answer the following questions: 1&2) What are two different everyday meanings of the word work (OTHER THAN having a job)? 3) If I blow up a balloon, am I doing physics work? Why or why not? Surveys, handed back tests Brainstormed: What does work mean in everyday life? In physics: work is when a force causes a displacement 4 demos: Did Leslie do physics work?
Quarter 2 2014-15
Quarter #2: Work, Energy, Power, Momentum, Heat
Tue 1/20
Make-up: Get a Finding Stuff Out sheet and a question from the file.
Finding Stuff Out: Select a question that students have wondered about, use the internet to find an explanation, and then draw a diagram and describe it in your own words
Mon 1/19 -- No School, MLK Day
Fri 1/16
Make-up: Schedule a time with Leslie to take Test #2
Quarter 2 Test #2 on Heat and Temperature
Thu 1/15
Jeopardy Review on Heat and Temperature
Wed 1/14
Make-up: Write your own question that could be on the test and answer it
Write a review question for the test
Start creating note sheet for test
Mythbusters: Frozen head & Blue ice
CP Homework: (due Fri 1/16) make a note sheet for the test, 1 page, both sides, your own handwriting
Tue 1/13
Make-up work:
- Card sort: Conductors and Convection
- Flashlight on thermometer experiment
- Winter, summer and the tilt of the earth demonstration
Mon 1/12
Make-up work: Conduction/Convection reading and questions in file
White boards on examples of conduction and convection
Heat can transfer different ways: Conduction is touching / contact
Convection is when hot gases or liquids rise and cool ones sink
(Finger next to candle demo)
CP Homework: (due Tue 1/13) create a true/false question about heat and temperature and write an answer with explanation.
Fri 1/9
Make-up work: Complete T/F sheet (in file) including "Why do you say that"
NHT True / False game
Thu 1/8
Make-up work: List 3 RHR behavior expectations for Leslie's classroom. List 3 examples of actions that are NOT RHR for Leslie's class.
Eureka 20: Measuring Temperature
Thermometer game
Reviewing Leslie's RHR expectations
CP Homework: What is the difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius? Which do you prefer? Why? (due 1/9)
Wed 1/7 - NO SCHOOL (cold day)
Mon 12/22, Tue 12/23, Mon 1/5 & Tue 1/6
Make-up work: Get roller coaster project packet from Leslie and complete. You will need a computer that runs JAVA (a smartphone probably won't work).
Explore PhET Energy Skate Park simulator
Design and build a roller coaster
Draw and label the energy along your ride both without and with friction
Fri 12/19
Make-up: Use page from file to answer worksheet on Temperature scales
Temperature scales are arbitrary!
Kelvin is the only one where zero means "nothing"
Hands in water demo -- we are lousy thermometers!
Thu 12/18
Make-up: Watch Eureka 19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMg1bmF5BVo
and answer the following questions. 1) What will happen to a full balloon left in the sun? 2) Why would this happen? 3) Why is there space left between pieces of concrete on a bridge?
Temperature and Heat prior knowledge sheet
Ball and ring demonstration
Simulator of gas molecules
Temperature measures average kinetic energy
CP Homework: What is one place besides the metal ball and the balloon of something expanding when hot or shrinking when cooled? (due 12/19)
Wed 12/17
Make-up work: #1-4b of Momentum and Impulse review (in file)
Brainstormed safety devices that increase time to stop and so decrease force
Whiteboard - what are the questions asking for and what do they want? Which equation?
Practice on worksheet
CP Homework: Write and solve a word problem about IMPULSE. (due 12/18)
Tue 12/16 - Field Trip to Base Camp
Make-up: N/A
Mon 12/15
Make-up work: Answer the following questions (also in file) in terms of impulse and momentum. 1) When swinging a baseball bat, why does follow through lead to the baseball leaving the bat with greater velocity? 2) Is a dish less likely to break if it falls onto a tile floor or a carpeted floor? 3) Why are airbags in cars a good idea?
Catching a baseball barehanded and water balloon catching contests
Impulse is change in momentum
Watched ESPN "Relaxing with Impulse"
CP Homework: Write 2 sentences using the word "impulse" 1) using everyday, common meaning & 2) using the physics meaning. (due 12/16)
Fri 12/12
Make-up: Schedule time with Leslie to do lab activity
Outrageous Acts of Science: Whip cutting daisy
Marble Madness: Different marbles down ruler ramps into other marbles on rulers
Does it seem like momentum is conserved?
Thu 12/11
Make-up: Schedule a time with Leslie to take the test
Q2 Test #1 on Work, Power, and Energy
Wed 12/10
Make-up: Use the file below to make a sheet of notes for the test (answers are on slides after all the questions)
Jeopardy Review - Work, Power, Energy
CP homework: Make a notesheet to use on the test (due 12/11)
Tue 12/9
Make-up work: Do momentum practice problems 1-4b
Where do we hear momentum in daily life? Sports, being on a roll,...
Whiteboard practice using momentum equation
Worksheet practice mom. = m*v
CP homework:Worksheet #5 (due 12/12)
Mon 12/8
Make-up work: Get CD 8-1 worksheet from file and complete all but #4
Stop a cannon ball with your foot?
Momentum is inertia in motion
Newton's cradle demos
Tennis ball on basketball demo
Conservation means total momentum stays that same
Practice worksheet
Fri 12/5
Make-up: Use the internet to do the following: 1) Define trebuchet. 2) Define catapult. What kind of potential energy is used for each?
Junkyard Wars - Washer Toss
Changing energy to throw a washing machine
Thu 12/4
Make-up work: Get CD 9-1 from file and complete 1-5 & 7
Reviewing Work, Power, and Energy (CPPs)
Eureka 9: Kinetic Energy
Worksheet that reviewed all from this quarter
CP homework: Create and solve a word problem using P=W/t (due 12/5)
Wed 12/3
Make-up work: #1 use the packet in the file (or the internet) to find the calories in one of your favorite fast foods. #2 Convert the calories to Joules (1 Calorie = 4184 Joules). #3 use the packet in the file (or the internet) to find how long it would take you to burn off those calories at an exercise of your choice.
- Find the power needed for a couple of fitness activities
- Discuss how work, energy, and power are related to calories and food
Tue 12/2
Make-up work:Use the internet or notes to answer these questions: 1) If I roll a ball across a flat floor, it eventually stops. Where does the energy go? 2) Once I pick my feet up off the ground on a swing, I can get myself higher and higher. Where does the energy of motion come from? 3) Where do cows get their energy?
Watched Sports Figures: Tony Hawk perpetual motion?
Everything is solar powered???
CP Homework: Connect energy sources to the sun (slip in file) due (12/3)
Mon 12/1
Make-up work: Get fake data and complete lab sheet (in file)
Defining POWER -- everyday life and in physics
Power = work / time and is measured in Watts
Determining our power running up the stairs.
Wed 11/26 - Fri 11/28
THANKSGIVING BREAK - no school, enjoy your holiday!
Tue 11/25
Make-up work: Get toy popper data and complete lab worksheet (in file)
Watched Eureka 10: Potential Energy
Measured height of toy popper and conservation of energy to calculate how fast it was going when it left the ground
Mon 11/24
Make-up work: Complete worksheet CD 9-2 front except for challenge problem (in file)
(Cups, rubberband and string activity)
Conservation means total energy stays the same
Applied conservation to examples where gravitational potential energy (GPE) turned into kinetic energy (KE)
GPE depends directly on height
Fri 11/21
Make-up work: Get packet and complete graphic organizer (in file)
Energy is the ability to do work! (Both measured in Joules)
Identified 3 kinds of Potential energy and 2 kinds of Kinetic Energy
Tried 6 demos around the room of how energy changed from one form to another
CP homework: Identify an example of energy conversion in everyday life -- from initial to next (due 11/25)
Thu 11/20
Make-up work: Get class data (in file) and then write a summary
Try pulling a dishwasher (500 g mass) into a truck using ramp at different angles
What did we find? No free lunches -- all about the same amount of work!
Mon 11/17 - Wed 11/19 (Leslie working but sick)
Make-up: See Leslie for instruction sheet, examples and supplies to be completed on your own time
Paper roller coaster project
Make a roller coaster for a marble out of only paper and tape.
Fri 11/14
- Leslie out sick
Make-up: Google "mythbuster results" and summarize how they tested any 3 myths (http://mythbustersresults.com/)
Mythbusters
Thu 11/13 - Leslie out sick
Make-up: Google "mythbuster results" and summarize how they tested any 3 myths (http://mythbustersresults.com/)
Mythbusters
Wed 11/12
Make-up work: Complete "work"sheet #1-5 (in file)
Review examples of work
Catchy Physics Phrases: force and work
Eureka 8: work
Practice using the formula W=F*d
CP homework: Create your own problem using W=F*d and solve it (due 11/13)
Tue 11/11
Make-up work: Use the internet or notes to answer the following questions: 1&2) What are two different everyday meanings of the word work (OTHER THAN having a job)? 3) If I blow up a balloon, am I doing physics work? Why or why not?
Surveys, handed back tests
Brainstormed: What does work mean in everyday life?
In physics: work is when a force causes a displacement
4 demos: Did Leslie do physics work?